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Volunteers from the Marshall
County Auditors office -
collecting absentee ballots at
the Veterans Home in
Marshalltown... 17:26-"a lot of
them were looking for us... "
Joyce, a Democrat, paired with a
Republican - over five hours
they collected 33 absentee
votes... 18:21-"we fold them
back up, stick them in here.."
17:11-"everyone was glad to have
voted .."
...the volunteers - together,
drive the ballots straight to
the county courthouse ...and
walk them, together, into the
auditor's office... where they
will sit - two more weeks in a
secure room with other absentee
votes...
39:00-"we still have a lot out -
you had about 6000 requests, and
you think you have about 5000
right here, probably about that
yeah." Early voters also are
voting in the courthouse
rotunda... in 2012 about 10000
of the 23 thousand or so voters
in Marshall county voted before
election day - that means over
40 percent of the ballots had to
be kept secure in the weeks
before they could be counted.
27:42-"we put a band-aid seal on
the door, so that way we can see
if its been tampered with at
all."
This is Marshall county's 6th
election in the past year and a
half -so security techniques are
well versed... 39:38-"the whole
courthouse is locked, and of
course there's other little
security things - can't tell you
all of our secretsso" The
commissioner of elections says
her voting equipment can't be
targeted by outside computer
hackers...
30:36-"all of our equipment is
stand alone - not wi-fi
based..." 30:57-"they would
physically need to come to
Marshalltown and visit."
So despite national headlines...
Donald Trump -
...local controllers are
confident... "there are worries
a cyber attack could influence
voting results..." 26:56-"we're
not worried as to how we handle
things, we are already looking
at security no matter if
someone's talking about it or
not." MT KCCI 8 news iowa's news
leader